George Zimmerman has no job, no home, no income but spends $100 a month on vacations and $200 a month on psychological counseling, according to a financial affidavit he recently filed in his divorce case.

Zimmerman, 30, is the former Neighborhood Watch volunteer acquitted last year of murdering Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black 17-year-old.

Immediately after the shooting – Feb. 26, 2012 – he quit his job and went into hiding with his wife, Shellie, but two months after his acquittal, she filed for divorce, saying he had taken to the road and would not tell her where he was and what he was doing.

As part of the divorce case, Zimmerman filed a financial affidavit last week, spelling out his income, assets and debts.

He listed his total assets at $14,000 – most of that is his 2008 Honda pickup. His debts total $2.5 million, most of that is money he owes criminal defense attorneys Mark O’Mara and Don West.

According to his paperwork, Zimmerman has no job, pays nothing for rent or a mortgage and has no health insurance.

He spends $350 a month for medical care plus $200 a month for psychological, psychiatric or mental health counseling.

He also spends $100 a month on vacations, he wrote.

Zimmerman’s legal defense fund, which raised more than $400,000, now has a balance of $300, according to the affidavit.

It is not clear what happened to any money he earned from the sale of a painting on eBay in December. The winning bid was $100,000. There is no mention of it in his affidavit.

Well where are the wingnuts offering him a post in their welfare circuit? I mean come on, he was the poster child for Stand Your Ground laws and making sure “dem negroes” know their place. You’d think for all their original support they’d put him on a pedestal, not just abandon his sorry ass. Not that he deserves their help, just surprised that the RW loons moved on to their next shiny.

@ronin122: I think they were happy to early on. The visit to the gun manufacturer seems to have been a turning point, shifting public perception over a line from ‘self defense’ to ‘ammosexual’. That and the fundraisers to buy him guns seem to have made him politically untouchable.

I am assuming the money is stashed somewhere. I doubt anyone is truly honest on disclosure of assets in a divorce.

Zimmerman has specific history about that – didn’t Shellie wind up taking a perjury rap for lying to keep him eligible for a PD. It would pretty reckless for him to take that chance again, in other words completely in character.

I hope his wife’s attorneys do a little digging into his financial statements. He’s not that bright. Unless he’s hired some really smart people to hide his money, it’s got to be there somewhere. Unless he’s spent it already. But if so, on what? Hookers and blow?

@ronin122: I think the reality is that unless you can bring in bucks as a speaker, or you have connections as an ex-public official that can help lobbyists, wingnut welfare isn’t all its cracked up to be. Just like everything else in conservatism, they’ll claim to “support” the little guy, but in reality he’ll always get screwed.

Let’s see, he has a history of lying about money in court, he is a cold blooded murderer (he is in my eyes), he can’t seem to inspire women to stay with him for any length of time, even the RWNJs don’t seem to want anything to do with him….

I can hardly count the number of glib motherfuckers who have said “I’d rather be judged by 12 men the carried by 6!”

Those fools have no idea the forms of hell they unleash on themselves when they chose to shot another human. Its not a simple clean clean and then back to your normal life. They really need to consider that case of Mister Z because his end is more common thatn they think.

@raven:
First of 3, they are not that rare but its cool we are going to get 3 of the this summer!

Rainy here may not get to see this months.

EDIT: my Native American friend tells me this June full moon was called the ‘popcorn moon’ by his nation and that some midwestern nations called it the “green corn moon”. No use to that information but I like the poetry of it.

That was the turning point for me.
My opinion went from ‘situation escalated out of control due to his actions, but he had no intent to kill’ to ‘the motherfuck started the confrontation wanting an excuse to use his gun’.

There is a logic to that thought, but as you noted there are significant legal, moral, economic, and psychological issues that someone who kills another, even if it’s totally justified self defence, has to deal with .

Unless you’re a sociopath. Then you don’t care about the moral, ethical, and psych issues.

There are reasons why cops who shoot someone get mandatory time off and psychological counseling.

Nobody in their right mind would extend a $2.5 million line of credit to someone like him, and actually expect to get paid. And I’m just talking about ability to pay, not character. I suspect they did it for the publicity, and probably with the expectation of writing most or all of it off as a loss on their taxes. Wonder if they’re just waiting to forgive his debt until after the divorce, so he can hang onto both halves of that $650.

Nobody in their right mind would extend a $2.5 million line of credit to someone like him, and actually expect to get paid. And I’m just talking about ability to pay, not character. I suspect they did it for the publicity, and probably with the expectation of writing most or all of it off as a loss on their taxes. Wonder if they’re just waiting to forgive his debt until after the divorce, so he can hang onto both halves of that $650.

@Soonergrunt:
He’s a self-indulgent, hot-headed, Southern fool attracted to guns. I believe that combination assures justice of some kind will be served, but fear there will be “collateral damage” in the process.

@Soonergrunt:
In some ways this may be worse. For one,he had a taste of being a celebrity and having a million ‘friends’. Now he has to live with the knowledge that he has no real friends and nobody is excited to see him. A hell of his own making, a free man with no freedom.

Like Dick Cheney & Boy Blunder I hope he lives to a very old age wallowing in self pity with no friends and nowhere he is welcome.

As disgusted as I am with George Zimmerman, I will always hold a special contempt for those who rallied around him. From the rape of his cousin, to the spousal abuse, to the murder itself, to the psyche drugs he’s on, to his inability to find a stable job even before the crime and certainly after it, it’s clear that Zimmerman is mentally unhinged. His defenders are just racist assholes.

From the rape of his cousin, to the spousal abuse, to the murder itself, to the psyche drugs he’s on, to his inability to find a stable job even before the crime and certainly after it, it’s clear that Zimmerman is mentally unhinged.

Wow, I had heard or read about all the other stuff, but did not know about his raping his cousin. What kind of monster did Judge Robert Zimmerman raise, anyhow?

@Unabogie: I was just thinking something like that. There’s something wrong with Zimmerman. You can believe he still thinks he was right. But the folks rallying around them? I feel like most of them know better. That makes them culpable in a different way.

Just saw this story, how does this not violate the doctors’ contracts with the insurors?

After being without health insurance for two years, Miranda Childe of Hallandale Beach found a plan she could afford with financial aid from the government using the Affordable Care Act’s exchange.

Childe, 60, bought an HMO plan from Humana, one of the nation’s largest health insurance companies, and received a membership card in time for her coverage to kick in on May 1st.

But instead of being able to pick a primary care physician to coordinate her healthcare, Childe says she repeatedly ran into closed doors from South Florida doctors who are listed in her plan’s provider network but refused to see patients who bought their coverage on the ACA exchange.

“I just felt that I wasn’t being treated like a first-class citizen,’’ said Childe, who eventually found a doctor with the help of a Humana counselor. “Nobody, I don’t care what kind of degrees they have, should ever be treated that way.’’

Nearly one million Floridians enrolled in a private health plan through the ACA exchange but some, like Childe, are finding that some physicians refuse to honor their coverage — even when the doctors are included in the plan’s provider network.

Some physicians say they’re concerned they won’t be paid for their services by either the insurer or the patient, and that insurers are not adequately informing doctors of their inclusion in exchange plan networks.

“You don’t want to be in a situation where you provide service, and turn around and there’s no contract in place to reimburse you,’’ said Jay Millson, executive vice president of the Florida Academy of Family Physicians.

For some patients, though, the elation they felt about being insured has been tempered with rejection at doctors’ offices.

Sal Morales, 48, of Kendall, said a physician and her staff humiliated him when he tried to make an appointment at her Hialeah office earlier this year.

@Schlemizel: Marc MacYoung has been preaching that for years. He just released a new book on the legalities of self-defense. I haven’t read it yet but it’s in the pile. The main point is that if you keep weapons, study a killing art, or both it behooves you to be conversant with the self-defense laws of your state. I myself have never had to use a weapon, although I do own a Chicago burglar alarm. It plays the sound of a shell being jacked into a 12-gauge–alarms burglars no end! Grin.

Killing unarmed black kids is so 2012. All the Z-Dog needs to do is kill an undocumented alien, claim self defense because the guy was going to infect him with some disease, and he’ll be back on the wingnut gravy train in no time.

Just saw this story, how does this not violate the doctors’ contracts with the insurors?

And what penalty do they pay for not honoring the contract with the insurer? The quacks could have also not participated in the plans.

The sad truth is the US healthcare system needs to be blown up at its base and rebuilt. It seems to have followed the trajectory of the US Educational system, and that’s a massive trainwreck in of itself.

Massad Ayoob wrote a couple of books on self defense back in the 80’s, and he not only urged learning the self defense laws, he also urged you to really think hard about whether or not you could take a life in self defense, and went on to list all of the consequences that Schlemizel mentions as factors you should be thinking about.

All in all, his book In the Gravest Extreme was a sober look at self defense and the consequences of it.

You mean “all the time”. That gaggle of whiny ass titty babies has a locked down guild of tight supply and deems itself special as a result. They’re the 2%, and the most dangerous place to be is between a doctor and a shitty business investment. They’ll run your ass over in their rush to hand a fat pile of cash to a slick talking white hustler in a nice suit.

This is how this tawdry and awful story was always going to play out. It’s nearly impossible for us to take a decade-long view of events as they’re happening, but if we had, each and every one of us would have bet on something very much like this scenario.

I’m still waiting for Karma to dig her claws into the eye sockets of the likes of Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh, the only actual “winners” in situations like this one. Our current culture doesn’t seem to hold them accountable for anything. Anyone with the ability to see the long term on those guys and feel confident about a gruesome finish for them is encouraged to post away and make my night.

I’m sure there are some people who can honestly declare themselves to be flat broke when they’re getting divorced.

25 years of family law experience here. Yeah, there’s frequently some lily gilding, but most of the time the stated misery is real enough. A collapsing marriage is depressing, and most couples limp for a couple of years – careers and outside interests take a huge beating in the course of that depression.

@hueyplong: I see Limbaugh as this figure marooned on his bed from extreme obesity, ranting at hired servants, unknowing that they are stealing everything from him until he has to fall back on family charity.

That sweet contract will come to an end, (he has very few sponsors left) and he spends a lot on private security, clandestine sex trips, and scented candles.

@ASV: the way those financial affidavits work, it’s like any yearly household budget, you take your annual estimate and divide by 12. Assuming once a year you fly to visit your mom, $1200 wouldn’t be out of line for most people I guess …

He spends his time “on the road,” has no income or assets, but has $650 a month in listed expenses, which do not include food, clothing, lodging, or anything of the sort?

First, yes, this is an obvious fabrication for divorce purposes. Secondly, even the destitute have to eat sometimes, and sleep somewhere, and even if he were living in his truck he’d still need money.

Someone is supporting him, and in all likelihood several someones. I suspect there is an underground circuit of GZ “fans” who are underwriting whatever his real expenses are … people who are comfortable in white robes and pointy hats, and think GZ performed a public service. So no, this does not make me happy. Not at all.

@Glocksman: I would imagine there are some long-term consequences of killing another human being, even in self-defense. I guess I even hope there would be, for any healthy human being. Sure, military works to get you over that cultural taboo, so you can shoot and slice and stab with abandon, and stay alive yourself. My sense is, lots of soldiers have some guilt about it. As a nation, we are mostly okay with the psychological price they pay.

The only time we need to worry about guilt for ending a life is when an innocent , foolish, woman aborts her full-grown human fetus. She might suffer for her choice to stay alive, and we want to save her from that by forcing delivery.

If I could believe one word that comes out of that lying psychopath’s mouth, I would be happy. But it’s for certains that Zimmerman’s financial statement is as much science fiction as any other sad sob story he’s ever come up with for why he’s the victim, not the perpetrator, of whatever assholery he’s currently manufactured for himself.